The Rise of Renewable Energy Importance in Data Center Location Decisions

According to a recent survey of over 200 HPC sites worldwide, the on-premises and cloud HPC markets are expected to grow over the next five years, although at slightly lower rates than previously anticipated earlier in 2022. Future cloud budgets for HPC workloads are expected to grow at a faster rate than the on-premises market for industry and academic user sites, while government sites are anticipating higher on-premises budget growth.

Throughout the year, Hyperion Research uses our surveys to ask buyers about near-term expectations for their spending on HPC. We ask whether, in the next quarter, they expect the amount they spend to increase, decrease or stay the same. If they expect spending to go up or down in the next quarter, we ask by what percentage. The questions and resulting data are not limited to servers but also include anticipated spending on cloud usage and on desktop computers. We then use this data collected over multiple quarters, along with historical revenue patterns and other sources, to help us generate our HPC market forecasts.